How to Make Your Own Oscar the Grouch Halloween Costume

In this article I am going to tell you how you can make your very own version of the character from Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch. The Oscar the Grouch Halloween costume is a Halloween costume that can be worn by both boys and girls. The Oscar the Grouch Halloween costume is a Halloween costume that can be made pretty inexpensively, because you can find pretty much most of what you will need right inside your home. The Oscar the Grouch Halloween costume is rated on the difficulty level of about medium, because there is some hot gluing and cutting involved.

You will need to acquire the following things for the Oscar the Grouch Halloween costume: Trash can with a lid (can be old, but needs to be clean, and won't be able to be reused as a trash can again), utility knife or strong scissors, hot glue, safety pins, hot glue gun, long sleeved hooded green sweat shirt, green sweat pants, green and black face paint, various clean trash examples: newspaper,green suspenders,self sticking Velcro, green gloves, rock or sand paper,empty cans, empty bottles, empty bags (cereal, grocery bags,cookie,etc), empty boxes (mashed potatoes, hamburger helper, rice, etc) play fruit, cheese wrappers, tissues, UNUSED toilet paper. You get the idea I hope.

Once you have acquired the needed items please proceed on to Step 1.

Step 1. Take your trash can, if it is an old trash can make sure you clean out the trash can very well. Once your trash can is cleaned and ready take your utility knife or sturdy scissors and proceed to cut out the bottom of the trash can. You will need to cut the bottom of the trash can completely off.

Step 2. Once you have the bottom cut off of Oscar's trash can, discard the bottom. If Oscar's trash can is new you will need to dent it up a bit, take a rock and rub it all over the outside of the trash can to make it look old. You can also use sandpaper to make the same effect. And don't forget to do the same to the lid of Oscar's trash can.